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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Richard Bach
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
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Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.
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That’s what learning is, after all not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.
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This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
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We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
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When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
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Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!
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Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
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